LAURIE ANDERSON & KRONOS QUARTET

Landfall 7/10

Avant-classical icons share a stormy weather forecast

inspired by Hurricane Sandy’s devastating effect on new york in october 2012, Laurie Anderson’s debut collaboration with the venerable Kronos Quartet was first performed live just six months later. Finally surfacing as an album and related book, Landfall is an electroacoustic patchwork of mostly short, mournful, quietly lovely mood pieces. The best, particularly “We Learn To Speak yet Another” and “it Twisted The Street Signs”, use software to deconstruct gleaming chamber-orchestra textures with glitches and crackles. Anderson’s signature droll vocal musings are unusually sparse here, though “everything is Floating” chronicles her sublimely bittersweet reaction to being personally flooded: “How beautiful, how magic, and how catastrophic.”